Sinkiang

Sinkiang was a communist totalitarian regime which ruled the present-day Xinjiang region of northwestern China from 1912 to 1949. In 1912, Yang Zengxin seized power following the Xinhai Revolution and the flight of governor Yuan Dahua, only to be assassinated in 1928 during Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang's Northern Expedition. His successor Jin Shuren allied with the White Army of Russia in order to prevent the Muslim Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Hui from rising up. In 1934, the Kuomintang crushed the East Turkestan Republic at Kashgar, and the republic's emirs Abdullah Bughra and Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra. In 1937, Bolshevik warlord Sheng Shicai took over the province and ruled it as a Soviet puppet, and the nation existed until 1944, when the East Turkestan Republic was revived. In 1949, the communist regime of Mao Zedong took over Sinkiang, ending the independent state and leading to tensions between the Uyghur separatists and the communist government.